I potted succulents for my Easter table. Jade are very easy to propagate, that pot looks to be many plants all crammed in one pot. If you unpot it and gently let the soil fall away I think you would find you have many small plants one could repot. These jade were all sips from a larger plant I am trying to form into a bonsai type tree. The glow succulent were three to the little black pot you see in the first picture. They were super easy to transplant.

I used to have a jade tree. Biggest problems were overwatering...don't do that. And they used to get mealybugs... little white fuzzy spots where the leaves connect to the stem. Easy to treat with rubbing alcohol on the end of a q-tip.

You'll definitely need to unpot that one to see what's going on...you may be able to divide it, but at a minimum get a larger pot.

Arcy, you did an amazing job. Will you take them out of the cups since they probably don't have holes for drainage? Is there a mama Jade? :)

Annie, you're so right. Back then there was no internet and now I water all of my plants at the kitchen sink and put them back when completely drained.

Light. That's going to be a hard one. Because of the change in direct sunlight I need to figure out the least amount of light a Jade will thrive in. We have bright indirect light and a few hours of morning sun from the east.

Any advice? Do you remember years ago when anybody who is anybody grew a Jade plant? :)

i have a varigated jade plant in my kitchen window. Mine is more ”branchy” and full. I prune it to keep the size I want. Ive had it for several years. Jade plants need several hours a day of bright light and don‘t over water. I’ve had no disease or bugs. I do fertilize occasionally. They like a cactus mix potting soil.

I'll be back to reply in a bit, but I wanted to show you where the baby is right now. I'm timing the sunlight in this east window.

@Oakleythat should be fine! I have a covered deck...so the light is not direct...like yours..Nice! I used Miracle Grow potting soil...it's very mulched...not a heavy soil.

I grow jade plants but I think my experience is not relevant here. I think of them a "very large landscaping plants". :P

thanks for the timely post. I was given a jade leaf that was rooting in water two years ago. It has done great, but I think I overwatered it as it is now toppling over. I just took it out of the pot, trimmed back the roots and re-potted it. Fingers crossed (Mine is in a southern window in a room that gets cooler at night)

ETA: yes, yours seems way over crowded. A bigger pot is necessary. You can also easily prune jade plant. Just keep in mind that where you cut, two more stems will appear.

@User mine is much like yours - except varigated. That's what I meant by "branchy". We have a pergola out from the window, so that blocks the direct sun but still very bright window.

Nicole, after I got the Jade yesterday I did a bit of reading about it & they're poisonous to cats. A couple of hours later I heard a some noise and when I checked, it was Miss Pepper batting around a small stem with leaves that came off the plant when I opened the package. She's not talking to me today.

What did you mix with the potting soil?

I'm out of potting soil for cactus/succulents but I found a bag of horticulture pumice. I remember buying it for succulents then forgot about it. It helps with drainage & I think you can mix it in the soil.

Fori, CA or FL?

The plants got almost 4 hours of direct and dappled sun. I found my old plant stand so I can take the table away and put them on the stand. My orchids bloomed for six months at that window.

Jojo, I'm going to get inside the pot and thin them out into several as soon as I can get the right soil. Good luck with your plant!

My cats like the smell of the soil...they're not into the jade plant. They "were" hunting fungus knats. 🤣 We have pine wood mulch.....but I didn't mix any into THIS soil....Miracle Grow potting soil is full of wood mulch. It keeps the soil from compacting.

Nicole how old is your large jade? My daughter in law has a beauty but I don't know how long that takes? I plan to repot and put them outside for the summer--if it ever comes- then bring them in and out..we will see. The cups do have drainage. DH has just the right bit. My 'mother plant' is a year old. I pinch it back a lot to get it branching. It was the size if the ones in the cups when I was gifted it. The giver also had more cuttings for my Easter cups!

I love these cute little personal size jades! :) Those teacups are just about the best things ever.

(I'm in CA. The spouse recently had to hack off a 6" diameter limb for some plumbing work by one of the jades and threw it out before I could stick it in the dirt and see if it would grow.)

Here's a recent one of mine, photo taken in January (this year), which is when it blooms:

Some of the neighbors' jade plants are like trees and get covered with white flowers in January.

Here's a photo of me standing in front of an over six foot tall jade tree in my front yard in Venice.

It came with the house, and so I don't know how old it was, but it was always fairly large.

They are easy to root, and you can always check the cacti & succulents forum for info.

Here are some I have in the back yard in a raised planter, also in full sun:

(Crassula ovata 'Gollum')

"Silver Dollar" (Crassula arborescens)

These have not bloomed for me yet, that I know of. I got these because they were cheap at Home Depot.

I plant them in cactus soil that drains well when I put them in planters or pots. When they get big enough, I generally move them to the front yard, although I'm running out of space there.

Lars, you're such a show off about your super green thumb. lol

Nicole, is that just one plant or a couple potted together.

Are my new ones tall enough to prune? How many sets of leaves should be at the bottom of the plant?

Mine started as a FREE cutting. I stuck the 3 pieces in the soil to root, propped up with bamboo sticks. It's about 10 years old. It should start blooming little white blooms, now it's mature.

@Lars....As I remember....the blooms are tiny...but sweetly fragrant...? Am I correct?

Beautiful Lars! I didn't realize there were such large jade plants.

The flowers on mine are not fragrant, but they are definitely tiny. However, they make a nice show when they cover the plant.

Lars, I just looked at the flowering Jade again. I've never seen a Jade flower before. They're natural to the West coast? Below is a picture which has part of a Hoya beginning to bloom. This one gets similar flowers but they grow under the leaf.

Nicole, those are the three cuttings? The pruning you did is fantastic! How many sets of leaves do I keep on the plant at the bottom when it needs pruned?

The succulent soil should come tomorrow and that's when I want to transplant and cut back but I don't know where.

Here's a new pic. The Hoya on the right will be moved and I'll put the Money Tree on the small stand and center both stands in front of the window, or the M.T. won't grow. Interesting that a Jade is also called a Money Tree. Hmmm.

I really think every house should be rectangle with all windows facing East. ;)

My jade plant pretty much takes little or no care. I turn it 180degrees every 3 years, to keep it in an upright form, not leaning into the window When I turn it, it starts dropping leaves from the "upset". It's self pruning that way. 😇 When the branches turn into trunks, they don't produce leaves on the trunk very often. Prune those. This house has 42 windows. East ....West is best.... as the old saying goes.

Here's my dinnette, another window, another menagerie. I grow golden monkey tail cactus. It blooms (Click to see blooms). Candle cactus, Crown of thorns/Blooms, Madagasca Palm, Hindu Rope Hoya, Hoya variegata, Epis's....and more....

I can spare some cuttings if anyone is interested...

I've not found my jade plant to be that delicate. However, I have never put it outside. I have done that with the Christmas/Thanksgiving/Easter cactus though. They love being outside and will really grow out there. I do not have any now.

@User you are kind to offer cuttings! : )

(I just had an idea for a new thread!)

Oakley, Jade plants are from South Africa, which has a similar climate to southern California. Therefore I have a lot of South African plants in my front and back yards, as do a lot of people here. There is a large section of the county arboretum devoted to South African plants.

I have a lot of the same plants as Nicole, including some Madagascar Palms, but mine are all outdoors. Madagascar Palms bloom, but they take years to do it.

You only see landscaping jades at older homes that have not been flipped or relandscaped (except my house where landscaping spared all the cool plants which are now eating my house).

They must have been popular in the...well, I don't know, but I don't see them small/young and I don't see them in front of any house built after the 1960s.

This is how the flowers look a month or two after blooming. (They really complement peeling paint, I feel.) This particular plant is about 8 ft high but has a hole from a limb removal.

@Lars....your right about South African plants! I just checked and my silver squill is also from South Africa! 😊 U smart guy! Of course in Colorado....it's ALL grown indoors. I have several orchids in bloom right now and more with buds ready to open.

Dendrobium Orchid.

Wow, beautiful pictures! I absolutely had no clue Jades are actually trees. Hey, I'm from Okiehoma, that's my excuse.

Nicole, is that a west window the plants are in? Looks like you have a Hoya. I keep mine going up instead of down.

You never did tell me where to prune the Jade. Let me explain what I'll do tomorrow if the soil comes, and then you tell me if I need to prune yet.

Take them out of the pot and separate, PRUNE if necessary, then repot in several pots. I'm not doing leaves though.

The tallest stem has 5 sets of leaves, the smallest about 2 sets. Where do I cut them back to get them to branch out?

What size pot do they need?

@Oakley...no, the plants I've posted so far...are in an East window. See where the BBQ grill is? There's a window to the right with the jade plant behind it. The window in the front of the photo, to the right is where the table is with ALL the small cactus and hoya plants...

I wouldn't trim a small Jade plants leaves. It needs the leaves to survive. As it grows, the stem will thicken like a trunk and leaves don't grow on a tree trunk...it will take care of itself. "IF" you want a small...4"-6" bushy little plant, pinching leaves will make it branch out....it will stunt it's upward growth temporarily while it branches. Jade plants are easy. My 3 "starts" were thick as my thumb and a foot tall. The trunks right now are easily 1.5"-2" across.

I also have a hoya that grows "up"...it's 9' tall. I have a pair....one hangs down.🌵

Any leaf pair on a stem can be pinched off. The stem can then me stuck in growing medium/soil and it will root. Depending on how you want to look will determine how you should pinch it off.

I want the plant to look like Nicole's. Here's where I'm confused. I don't mean pinching, I mean cutting off the top part of the stem above two leaves so the plant branches out. Like we do with garden flower, but we do call that pinching. But a jade is thicker so I call it cutting.

I'm hoping there will be some decent roots on each stem in the pot so they'll grow faster when I put them in the new medium.

What size pot should they go in at this size?

Tonight I'm going to dig deeper online to see what I can find.

I would not trim leaves in that small of plant. it seems my plant is happy in a smallish pot. I”ll try to remember to post a pic tomorrow.

Jade plants grow slowly, from my experience, and so I would leave it alone. I have never pruned or trimmed any of my jade plants. It's possible that you have multiple plants in your pot that you could separate into different pots.

Lars, I'm a 100% positive there are many single stems with roots in the pot. Today the succulent soil comes in and I'll transplant them. But first! ;)

I need to know two things.: Size of pots and how many stems would you suggest per pot?

If I left them together then the plant will grow bushy which is what I don't want.

Forgot, even though the plant is still moist, do I water after transplanting? I know about how to prevent root rot.

Jade plants don't mind being root bound in a small pot. In fact, keeping them root bound will keep the jade smaller and more manageable. Repot young jade plants once every 2 to 3 years to encourage growth. (from Almanac.com)

I would lightly water after repotting.

Tina, I don't want to grow them together or they'll turn in to a bush. That;s why I need to separate them today. I'll do that later then take a picture and ask what's next? lol

The problem with me is I've only grown Jades that are much bigger and never from the size in the pot. I've never seen their stem form because it was already there.

I love that Almanac website, thanks!

Here are my Jade plant babies. The pot is the same height as the tallest cutting. 5"

Here's a different view of the parent plant. You can see where it used to be flat against the window before I turned it around 180 degrees. I've never "pinched" or cut this plant. It pretty much fills in & grows abundantly on it's own.

@oakley I didn't mention anything about not separating them. I did mention not pruning the plant yet. You're welcome regarding the site. It is pretty informative!

Nicole, your parent plant branched perfectly!

Sorry Tina, I misunderstood you. As soon as my back settles I'm going to tackle my little project tonight.

After the thousand questions I asked, I chickened out. Once I got the plant out of the pot there wasn't a root in sight on the outside or bottom of the soil. I didn't even loosen the soil it was in so as not to disturb the young plants, so I put it in a 5" clay pot mixed with succulent soil and pumice.

I do have one more question. :) The soil was still damp and I didn't water it. Do I need to water or leave it be for a few days?

I let mine dry out...slightly. Me...I would NOT water if you felt it was damp. I'm glad your excited about growing a jade plant! Mine makes the room feel alive!

I did give it a bit of water today, Since I was already fertilizing some other plants I gave some to the Jade, without checking to see if it should be fertilized. I'll let you know when it dies. :)